The Great Collection of The Lives of the Saints, Volume II: October

Translated from the Slavonic edition published by the Christian Printshop of the Transfiguration Almshouse in Moscow in the year 1914 from the original compiled by Saint Demetrius of Rostov and published in KievFirst English Edition Translated by Father Thomas Marretta

“In these volumes of the present collection we offer to English-speaking Orthodox Christians the first set in any modern Western language of full-length accounts of the struggles and martyrdoms of the most eminent saints to cover the entire course of the year. Our devout forebears in the faith had as their daily reading not newspapers and novels but the Holy Gospels, the Psalter, the Book of Hours, and the Lives of the saints. Nourished constantly by these, their souls were filled with ineffable delight and spiritual yearning, and they lived not for this fallen world but in expectation of the eternal kingdom. It is our hope that these volumes will likewise ever be in the hands of the Christians of our time.”—“To the Pious Reader”

CONTENTS

To the Pious ReaderThe Teachers, Historians, and Chroniclers from whose works this book was compiledOctober 1 THE PROTECTION OF OUR MOST PURE LADY, THE THEOTOKOS The Holy Apostle Ananias Saint Romanus the Melodist, Author of KontakiaOctober 2 The Holy Hieromartyr Cyprian and the Holy Martyr Justina the Virgin Saint Andrew, the Fool for Christ’s SakeOctober 3 The Holy Hieromartyr Dionysius the AreopagiteOctober 4 The Holy Hieromartyr Hierotheus, Bishop of Athens Our Holy Father Ammon Our Holy Father Paul the Simple Saints Gurias, Archbishop of Kazan, and Barsanuphius Bishop of TverOctober 5 The Holy Martyr Charitina Our Holy Father Damian, Presbyter and Healer of the Kiev Caves Our Holy Father Jeremiah of the Kiev Caves Our Holy Father Matthew of the Kiev CavesOctober 6 The Holy Apostle ThomasOctober 7 The Holy Martyrs Sergius and BacchusOctober 8 Our Holy Mother Pelagia the Nun Our Holy Mother Thais the NunOctober 9 The Holy Apostle James, Son of Alpheus Our Holy Father Andronicus and His Holy Spouse AthanasiaOctober 10 The Holy Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia Our Holy Father Theophilus the Confessor The Holy Martyr TheotecnusOctober 11 The Holy Apostle Phillip, One of the Seven Deacons Our Holy Father Theophanes the Confessor and Composer of Canons The Miracle Worked by the Icon of Our Lord Jesus Christ at BeirutOctober 12 The Holy Martyrs Tarachus, Probus, and Andronicus Our Holy Father Cosmas, Bishop of MaiumaOctober 13 The Holy Martyrs Carpus, Papylas, Agathadorus, and AgathonicaOctober 14 The Holy Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius, and Celsius Our Holy Mother Parasceva of Serbia Our Holy Father Nicholas Sviatosha, Prince of ChernigovOctober 15 Our Holy Father Euthymius the New The Holy Martyr Lucian, the Presbyter of AntiochOctober 16 The Holy Martyr Longinus, the Centurion Who Stood by the CrossOctober 17 The Holy Prophet Hosea The Holy Martyr Andrew of Crete The Holy Martyrs and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of ArabiaOctober 18 The Holy Apostle and Evangelist LukeOctober 19 The Holy Prophet Joel The Holy Martyrs Varus and the Seven Christian Teachers with Him, and the Blessed Cleopatra and Her Son John Our Holy Father John of RilaOctober 20 The Holy Martyr ArtemiusOctober 21 Our Holy Father Hilarion the GreatOctober 22 Saint Abercius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Bishop of HierapolisOctober 23 The Holy Apostle James, Brother of the Lord Saint James the Wonderworker of BorovichiOctober 24 The Holy Martyr Arethas Our Holy Father Arethas of the Kiev CavesOctober 25 The Holy Martyrs Marcian and MartyriusOctober 26 The Holy Great Martyr DemetriusOctober 27 The Holy Martyr Nestor Our Holy Father Nestor the ChroniclerOctober 28 The Holy Martyrs Terence and Neonilla and Their Seven Children The Holy Great Martyr ParascevaOctober 29 The Holy Martyr Anastasia the Roman Our Holy Father Abramius the Recluse and His Niece, Blessed Mary Our Holy Father Abramius of RostovOctober 30 The Holy Hieromartyr Zenobius, Bishop of Aegae, and His Sister ZenobiaOctober 31 The Holy Apostles Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apellas, and Aristobulus of the Seventy The Holy Martyr Epimachus Our Holy Fathers Spyridon and Nicodemus, Prosphora-bakers of the Kiev CavesTranslator’s NoteIndex of Saints and Feasts of October